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The Queen made a statement today which included reference to how "struck" she is by the willingness of British people to help those affected in the fire and recent attacks. I suspect the poor souls who are now homeless would be equally struck if their Queen was to offer them respite in the vacant rooms at Buck House.

This scenario captures perfectly what being a Tory is all about. On a night when your team manager gets the tactics badly wrong and the rest of your teammates have a poor game and you score the perfect hat-trick, you still get shat on in the name of self-preservation. Giving the DUP any input to the running of UK is abhorrent to most on the big island. If you're gay and engaged to someone from Wexford it must be like waking up and finding Hades and a pale horse at your door. As for Dugdale, I hope she gets the melting she deserves from Corbyn. For one who battered on about Sturgeon's obsessions her own inward obsession with the SNP and openly promoting passive support for strong Tory bids has almost certainly led to her boss sitting on the sidelines this morning. John Smith must be rolling in his grave.

My son had it out with a lassie at work today who voted SLAB because someone gave her a Corbyn t shirt. In a world of instant decisions on social media the knowledge of five decades of wasteful laziness by Scottish Labour will be beyond the likes of her. Corbyn spent his whole life in politics and achieved nothing and after 2 years of lethargic indifference as leader of the Opposition, in the space of a fortnight, is being treated like a Messiah for getting shouty and lying at the same speed that a Tory can. SNP is the only Scottish party to be trusted.

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What about the Scooby-Doo ending? A Tory win with a hung parliament would be ideal. How tempting it would be if they could get rid of those pesky rebellious Scots, leaving a long-term dominance of England. Tempting.

That's a good piece too DrewDon. I said a week or two back that Corbyn doesn't actually have to win. Limiting the majority enough to weaken the Tory ramrodding of Brexit would be enough. When the EU start playing their games and progress is not meeting expectations (it won't take long) then Corbyn and Sturgeon can have their day in Westminster. May is legendary for her fillibustering in Westminster. She and her cronies (Rees-Mogg) are bit players compared to the EU procrastinators. I wouldn't be surprised if we're back at the hustings by September.

Spread the word friend. It's all out there

The timescale is irrelevant. It's about the change. A progressive society can adapt to change and benefit from it. Naysayers fear change and are imprisoned by it.

There's an even more sinister level from this piece a while back in the Guardian... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

Fair enough. Let's have a democratic vote to see who's right then. Three years is an age in this whirling world of ours. When IndyRef happened who would have thought that North Korea would have ICBM capability. Or that the US would be run by a game show host. Or that China would be actively deploying it's colonial muscle in the South China Sea and leading the world on climate change. Or that UK would want to leave the EU. Or Queen's Park would survive at least two seasons in League 1. Things change all the time. It's how the world and it's people have evolved.

Presumably because they think a Tory government will prevent their subsidies and standard of living? The singular reason I voted remain was this. Whatever the number is that UK pays into the EU pot will eventually become zero. Consequently, the various EU funding schemes back into UK will also zero. Those currently benefitting will then become dependant on Westminster support. The Tory party has demonstrated that anyone outside London is just resource for the mother ship. In England they've been cleansing, over 30 years, inner cities and creating a dependency on debt and benefits, crippling the poor and working classes. They are now throttling the young professionals, laden with debt from their education, with horrendous build-to-rent housing, rampant rent costs and no property ownership for their later years. HS2 won't be built to prosper Birmingham and Manchester. It's to drain northern England of their best talent for the benefit of London. And it's going to get worse as the Establishment becomes more desperate to defend the remnants of the Empire. We're very lucky we have a credible option to get away from this shite. Farmers, in an increasingly competitive global market, should really start thinking about who will be looking after them in the next decade. Blinkered, selfish b*****ds.

At those odds it has to be the BBC[emoji6]

The first two aren't seats in this election so they will definitely have a problem winning them. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine had a seven thousand majority for the SNP 2 years ago. And I was told by a farmer from Dumfriesshire last week that Mundell is haning by a thread. I'm struggling to find any level of evidence that the Tories will pick up seats. Happy to learn

Handy they stopped by the bins too

Some performance from Nicola today after a thumping opening from Pete Wishart and Angus Robertson. The only party leader who is consistent with the messaging. A natural born leader. We are very lucky. An impressive cast alongside and the hall packed to the rafters. Was talking to an aulder fella from Dumfries. Says the young farmers are with us and Mundell's been posted missing for 2 weeks. Set phasers to Malky!

Mob-handed Tory protest in Perth today across form the Concert Hall...

Davidson on Sunday Politics. Now she deluded by her own self-importance she continues to ignore the will of the Scottish Parliament by saying the Government has no mandate for a referendum. Never seen Gordon Brewer looking so angry. She's all over the shop. Can't keep the lies straight. Just like her boss. And apparently only 'young girls' died at Manchester. She's an abomination of human being. I hope her Scottish contingent get absolutely battered at the election. The question I want to hear is will she consider her position if there are no Tories from Scotland at Westminster.

Love this thread. Montrose for the flag next year with a mx24 points from Clyde Rangers.

It's not about Corbyn and May. It's about Tories v the rest. This "union" we hear of already has separate leading parties in the four distinct nations. The only one where The Cons are prominent in is England. Since GE2015 the Labour Party have largely spent their time sniping at each other. Those against Corbyn, career politicians, offered a future akin to what Milliband and Brown had already failed at. A reddish purple hue. Corbyn has realised that's playing straight at the Tory strengths and has wheeled out a manifesto that in practise is ridiculously unachievable but has cynical mimicked the Cons in their tactics; tell the people what they want to hear. Forgiveness rather than permission. And it's working. Back to red. And if he manages to keep the majority narrow those in his back benches who think he's wrong will quickly get in step, pull off the ties and revive their careers. And a strong Labour\SNP\Plaid\Green working relationship will encourage dissident Tories in Westminster, who are pro-EU, to push against the Whip as the inevitable failures unfurl when the incompetent Tory negotiators get hampered by the Brussels version of filibustering, a tactic that May is admired for ironically. Plenty to play for yet.

Unionist deflection targets working here. Topic is about Davidson, evil witch of the North. Absolutely no policies from this lot. Just distorted lies to anyone daft enough to believe it. The only one focussed on independence. Ten more years!

Bald men and combs there fella. Not being direspectful to your research but a fraction of these numbers is a horror show in one of the longest established and wealthiest democracies on the planet. My only correction (without diluting the Tory position at all) is that successive UK governments, red and blue, have contributed to this mess. Our lot don't get everything right but they certainly don't consciously destroy lives. We're lucky to have a credible option. Be grateful. Get as many as possible out and narrow the gap on the Tory majority.

So your granda was to blame for it all. The Black & Tans were one of the main reasons the IRA (before the Provos) resorted to premeditated violence. Brutal regime, largely made up of officers who wandered far away in Africa and The Subcontinent and discovered Ireland was too close to home for their thuggery. Says everything about the bigotry still rife in this country that Scottish people can't offer an opinion on the rights and wrongs of this recent history without being tagged as a loyalist or republican sympathiser. As for Davidson, thrashing the soles of her feet with a bamboo cane would be appropriate for her wrongdoings. But she'll be a baroness within 5 years and join that other grotesque distortion of a human being that shoed Ruthie through in the first place. Bring back the APG!

Fair enough. I made the schoolboy error of judging you against Clyde fans who normally start next season's club thread around February.

Should this topic not be in league 2 forum by now [emoji112]

I think your genuine question is dependant on the assumption that this current UK government actually gives a shit about it's citizens.